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MjHinbach, Chicago, is chairman.
Meanwhile, the Association of
Commerce and the Chicago Commer
cial club is busy advocating the
Cppley scheme of Industrial train
Icgr saying that their purpose in sup
porting the Cooley idea is the interest-of
the children of the state. When
Yictpr A. Olander, secretary of the
State Federation of Labor, at several
public meetings asked agents of these
Sotfies to prove their good faith to
ward the children by publicly agree
ing to support the child labor bill they
3'odged the issue.
n .The Cooley measure, says the labor
men, aims to base its training, of. the
(jild almost entirely upon the job,
feven. if it be a hopeless "blind alley"
Jot), which the boy or girl of 14 may
have drifted into. It is, they say, a
EQld-blooded, deliberate scheme to
mould the minds of children to suit
the alleged needs of the machinery of
industry; a sort of a conscription of
thjs innocents to do battle for the
guse of the capitalists.
The child labor bill should have the
gupport of every progressive citizen
says the state committee, which ad
ylses active warfare against the
Cooley dual system of alleged voca
tional schools.
DEIAND PEACE CONFERENCE
' A conference of all nations to be
Immediately called by the United,
Stages to bring about peace without
humiliation to any nation was de
manded in a resolution passed at the
closing session of the Emergency
Pace Federation at the LaSalle hotel
fijist night. Neutralization of all sea
routes was also asked. Miss Jane
Addams of Hull House was chosen
K,em.anent president of the National
Tteace Federation.
1 THE THIEF HAD A HEART
N$w York, March 1-"Golly," a
fkmous pickaninny Christmas paint
ing; has been returned to the owner.
The thief sent a note along saying he
didn't know It was to cheer Up "kid
dies br he wouldn't have stolen it.
SUFFRAGE LEADERS TO DISCUM
PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN
Bsttie R. JaccJxs
The southern states where woman
suffrage is now a leading issue will
send a large delegation of suffragists
to the Mississippi Valley Suffrage
conference, to be held March 7 at In
dianapolis, among them Mrs. Pattie
Ruffner Jacobs of Birmingham, Ala.
AU tt the Mississippi Valley "states
will be represented in the conf ereace,
which has-been called to consider
plans for -state campaigns in suffrage
states. JMg
PRACTICAL-
Little-Archie was told to put down
a sharp knife he was playing with,
but did not do so. When he cut his
finger he ran to his mother, who add;
"There! Now don't come to me for
sympathy."
"i don't want sympafy," said
Archie "i want a rag," Judge.
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